The Transformation of Habitus and Capital on Indonesian Trainee in Japan: Changing the Work Ethics of Indonesian Workers

Roberto Prabowo, Dade Mahzuni

2021

Abstract

The Japanese government opened trainee program opportunities in Japan to save the country’s economy in 1990. This opportunity opened to ASEAN countries to work as a trainee in Japan. The chance for this trainee program to Japan for only three years has become an arena for learning new knowledge and experiences for trainees. They had changes in habitus such as greetings, the consciousness of work ethics, ideology, and aesthetics. They also learn about the Japanese language and culture in companies or civil society. They feel a sincere, polite, neat, mutually respectful culture, etc., which they want to apply in Indonesia. However, there is one Japanese culture that has changed the work ethics of Indonesian, namely kizukau. Kizukau means caring, worrying, and concern for others. The theory and concept of this study use Bourdieu on habitus, arena, and capital. The concept of Japanese concern will use by Mitsuno and Imajo to explain the concept of kizukau. Motivation in concern action will use the concept of Batson, which consists of four types, namely altruism, egoism, collectivism, and principlism. This research explains the change in habitus in Indonesian trainees that can be developed into better business models and Japanese companies.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Prabowo R. and Mahzuni D. (2021). The Transformation of Habitus and Capital on Indonesian Trainee in Japan: Changing the Work Ethics of Indonesian Workers. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-602-6, pages 242-247. DOI: 10.5220/0011245200003376

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri21,
author={Roberto Prabowo and Dade Mahzuni},
title={The Transformation of Habitus and Capital on Indonesian Trainee in Japan: Changing the Work Ethics of Indonesian Workers},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2021},
pages={242-247},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011245200003376},
isbn={978-989-758-602-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - The Transformation of Habitus and Capital on Indonesian Trainee in Japan: Changing the Work Ethics of Indonesian Workers
SN - 978-989-758-602-6
AU - Prabowo R.
AU - Mahzuni D.
PY - 2021
SP - 242
EP - 247
DO - 10.5220/0011245200003376